/Life |
Seven Decades | Seven Decades | At Eighty
Edwin Morgan's 'Seven Decades' is an autobiographical poem – to
1990 at least, when he turned seventy. 'At Eighty', written
ten years later, is less directly autobiographical, but
reveals something of his mood a decade on.

/Now |
Glasgow 5 March 1971
Edwin Morgan's 'instamatic poems' are "based upon
actual things which have happened as reported in the newspapers
or on television. I try to imagine somebody had been there
with an instamatic camera, and quickly taken a photograph."